Improvement in eleotro-magsetio engines



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No. 63,380. Patented Apr. 2, 1867.

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GHARLIES I. B. GAUME, OF DAVENPORT, IQWA. Letters Patent No. 63,380, dated April 2, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN ELEGTRO-MAGNETIG ENGINES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. B, GAUME, of Davenport, in the county of Scott, and State of Iowa, have made a new and useful improved Electro-Magnetic Engine; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation of the sn1ne,sulhcient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which is made part of this specification. and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view.

Figure 3 is aside elevation illustrating the ,mode of forming the continuous series of coils.

Figure 4-. is a perspective view of a portion of the inner wheel containing the series of iron plates to be successively attached by each of the series of eleotro-magnets.

Figure 5 is a detached view or" the governor.

The improvement consists of an clectro-iuagnetic engine in which a series of clectrc-magnets are placed on or near the periphery of a whecl'so as to attract successively the iron plates on a wheel jou nalled upon the same axis, the series of magnets being formed by wrapping a continuous wire upon the series of cores, and the motion of the wheel carrying the magnets being the means of alternately making and breaking the circuit by' which the said cores are made magnetic. The battery wire is so connected to the engine as to have a reserve which is capable of being attached or detached by the motion of a governor, so that the speed of the engine shall be the means of determining the extent of battery connection.

In the drawings, A. is the wooden platform of the engine from which rise the standards B, which support thc axis C of the wheel E, and also the wheels F, whose hubs D are sleeved upon the said axis, and run in a different direction thereto, as the wheels F are connected to the bevel-wheel H, and the wheel E to the bevel wheel I, which are in connection with the opposite sides of the bevel-wheel J, upon whose shaft the governor is arranged. Attached to the wheel E is a series of pairs of soft iron plates, KK, and this wheel revolves between the wheels F F, to each of which is attached a series of cores, L L, united by plates M. Around the cores, seriatim, is wound a wire, N, in the manner shown in the fig. 3. The wire, after being wrapped around the corcssnccessirely of one, crosses over to the other wheel F. where it is similarly wrapped around all the cores of the latter. The ends of the wire are connected through the wooden flanges d of the hubs to the metal bands cc. In the latter case, the connection is made withthc zi'nc of the battery by the armf, which has a roller running against the strip 0', and a means of'attaehment for the ground wire. In the former case the strip e is p ovided with alternate conductors and non-conductors e,'so that the roller and arm g, connecting with the plate It to which is attached the battery wire, will alternately make and break the electric circuit; The plate 7; being in constant battery connection, whenever the roller on the arm 9 isin contact witd the metal strip e, the electric circuit is complete, and the series of electric magnets on the peripheries of the wheels F attract the iron plates K on the wheel E, and when the roller on the arm pic in contact with a non-conductors" the circuit is broken and the iron plates on the wheel E are no longcrafi'ccted.. A determinate impulse in :1- given direction having been given to the wheels their impetus carries them in the intervals of time, when the electric circuit is broken and the electric impulse being imparted at a certain period,.the plates are individually attracted towards the clcctro-inagnet next in series, and an additional impulse is communicated, producing an increment of speed. The governonballs qqnrc pivotcd'in the usual manner to a collar on the vertical shaft'p, which is revolved by the bevcl-whcel J. When the balls rise under increase of speed, toes onthe inner end of the governor-arms press upon a central rod, s,.(f ig. 5,) and depress one end of the lever t, raising the connecting-rod o and the lever 11, in which are three keys, V V V, which, when the lever t is in a horizontal position, are in contact with the plates Iclm, to which are attached wire from auxiliary batteries. When the governor reaches a certain high speed, the balls will, by the devices described, lift the'lcver 72-, and raise the kcyV from contact with the plate m, and thus disconnect the engine from the battery in communication therewith. It the speed still increases the key V will be thrown out of connection with the battery attached to plate I, and ultimately the batterybelonging to plate It will be disconnected from the engine if the speed increases to the requisite degree. Thus, it will be seen that the amount of battery is graduated to the speed, successive batterv connections being severed as'thc speed increases, and, conversely, 'being reconnected when the speed decreases. The wheels E carrying the soft metal plates may be errangml on each side of the magnet-wheel F, being an interchnnge of their respective pssitions, as shown in the drawings.

Having described my invention, What I ciaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the Wheels F F, provided with the electro-rnegnetic coils as described, with the wheel E, yrevided with the duplicate set 0? iron plates 7:, arranged radially as set forth, operating through the medium of the alternate battery connection and diseonnection, substantially as described.

The above specification of my electromagnetic engine signed this 23d of April, 1866.

CH. J. B. GAUME.

Witnesses:

ALEXR. A. G. KLAUCKE, Sonon O. KnMoN. 

